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a
: one that drinks
b
: a person who drinks alcoholic beverages especially to a notable degree
a heavy drinker
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Examples of drinker in a Sentence
I'm not much of a drinker.
Most of his friends are drinkers.
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In a large study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers found that coffee drinkers have an abundance of a specific gut bacterium called Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus.
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Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2025
Their mastery was recently highlighted by Untappd, the popular app that allows drinkers to rate their beers, in their second annual Untappd Community Awards.
—Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Robinson is not a regular coffee drinker but had started taking caffeine shots before games that season.
—Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
With over 6,000 wineries in 65 appellations, Bordeaux can be a confusing category for wine drinkers, especially when faced with dozens of lookalike bottles on a store shelf, so the 2025 Cru Bourgeois du Médoc helps cut through the fog and highlights the best of the best.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2025
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Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2025
Their mastery was recently highlighted by Untappd, the popular app that allows drinkers to rate their beers, in their second annual Untappd Community Awards.
—Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Robinson is not a regular coffee drinker but had started taking caffeine shots before games that season.
—Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
With over 6,000 wineries in 65 appellations, Bordeaux can be a confusing category for wine drinkers, especially when faced with dozens of lookalike bottles on a store shelf, so the 2025 Cru Bourgeois du Médoc helps cut through the fog and highlights the best of the best.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2025
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“Drinker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drinker. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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